[SB vs. UT Arlington (3/26/24)]

Thanks again Matt.  I had a great time.  It was very cool of the team to come over and thank us.  
 

Rick

[Congratulations to FirefightnRick - Retirement after 30-years]

Thank y’all for the kind words.  

You know I’ve always felt like one of the most blessed people on earth for being able to share life with three different families.  My family at home, my fire family at work and my Mean Green family.   Emergency workers need their families to de stress and take their thoughts of the shift somewhere else, and this family, my Mean Green family has certainly done that for me.  Whether we are fighting over our opinions on subjects of the moment,  or loving each other in celebrating Mean Green successes…it’s all been a family to me and helped me focus on happier times.  
 

My last shift yesterday was an overwhelming day of emotion, reflection and joy seeing family and friends and coworkers one last time at the station.  I greatly appreciate hearing from so many of you, and was especially proud seeing @SilverEagle repping the Mean Green at my station, as well as his Mean Green alumn son Jeff, or as he’s known now on the FWFD, Chief Covert.  

I hope to make more games now, hopefully more road games, though my wife’s Honey-Do list has now grown longer than a @PlummMeanGreen
 post on national “Stadium Day”.  So I’ll see how it goes.  
 

So till the next tailgate,….It’s All Good And All Green.

 

Rick

[SMU (1/25/24)]

On 1/25/2024 at 10:31 PM, MeanGreen22 said:

The “North! Texas!” chant isn’t something you ask for. It’s an organic cheer that comes when the fans feel it in the moment. The moment was absolutely perfect tonight. I wish the gameday ops people understood that and stopped trying to push it on us (often at weird times in the game). 

 

Rick

[SMU (1/25/24)]

On 1/25/2024 at 8:32 PM, ADLER said:

Where are all our SMU trolls? Would they be missing if SMU had won?

And where were their fans?  I didn’t see 10 people in blue and red.  Really makes you wonder, other than just for no other reason than the exorbitant level of cash they have flowing to their athletes why any any of them would want to play for that program? To be ranked 32nd and can’t get anyone to travel 35 miles to see their team play, and a really good team at that?  That’s really something else.  

Still, it was a solid, never give up fighting win by this team that was All Good And All Green!

 

Rick

[A Hypothetical]

Tony Worrell, Chris Davis or Kenneth Lyons.

 

 

Rick

[NIL DEVIL!]

1 hour ago, Mo Green said:

Could paying these young college age men $$$ give them a false sense of worth greater than their college team and school? So, when the school needs them, they bail?

Food for thought poor FSU!

 

LEARNING!!!!!!!!

 

 

Rick

[A Big Thank You To Scotty Campbell And Tony Berone]

You know we may not be winning on the field right now but we damn sure win on game day, tailgating wise.  

I was thinking about it yesterday as I enjoyed some of the best food and drink with the best group of people you will ever encounter at Tony and Vic’s, and Scotty’s tailgates, and the day had me reflecting on how unbelievably fortunate we were to have the vast Mean Green Athletic estate to enjoy one of the most beautiful days of the year.  Easily accessible lots, vast, wide open spaces and beautiful green belts in every direction that gives us access to tailgate under massive oak and pecan trees.  It’s just beautiful to me.

Many of you and myself have traveled the country attending these events over the years.  In fact I was in Minneapolis the weekend the Gophers played Michigan back on the first weekend of October this season.  As I drove around the tailgates at The Bank I actually felt sorry for their fans because it looked horrible and reminded me of what it would be like setting up a picnic in a WalMart parking lot in the center of a city landscape.  What we are privileged with is truly a football game day Nirvana imo.

Thank you again to Scott, Tony and Vic and everyone who invited SilverEagle and I to your tailgates. Y’all absolutely knocked it out of the park.   Can’t wait to do it again.

 

Rick

[Would have liked the chance to get this guy (GJ Kinne)]

On 12/8/2022 at 9:49 PM, FirefightnRick said:

I normally prefer defensive minded coaches  but I can’t help but be intrigued with the 578 yards per game his UIW team is putting up.  And he knows how to promote and sell his program.  He would have been a good one.

 

Rick

[Happy Birthday Gray Eagle!]

Happy Birthday Jack!  I hope you have great day!

 

 

Rick

[North Texas Adds 6 Games for Future]

1 hour ago, DeepGreen said:

FirefightnRick, do they have an ROTC program over there?  Those are some pretty cool "Arty" pieces they have there.

Yes, and Memorial Stadium honors their 179 who died in WWII.  And here is the unveiling of a statue honoring Maj. Gen. Rudder and the naming of Rudder Way.

https://youtu.be/Z1mwUoOXLE4

Rick

[North Texas Adds 6 Games for Future]

4 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

Tarlton and North Alabama?

Where is North Alabama?  And if you tell me it's in Northern Alabama I'm gonna "virtually" punch you in the mouth!

 

4 hours ago, NT80 said:

Allen High would bring a crowd, maybe we can get them on the schedule too?

I don’t know, it may just be me?  But imo any school that has recently invested funding to renovate their stadium, which they have sold out nearly every game recently, every fall attempts to surpass its sister school by building this big of a bonfire every year, and who went out and acquired its own 3-inch M1902 Field Gun with matching caisson…. probably brings a good crowd to Denton and will be looking to steal our lunch money.

This isn’t my grandmother’s Tarleton State University anymore.  Maybe Phil and Jeff would like to join the rest of us in the 21st century?  I hear it has a great, new groove.

 

Rick

[Softball series versus Charlotte]

On 4/18/2023 at 6:31 AM, SUMG said:

Buddy.....I was simply talking about her defense. Last year she was so automatic at shortstop. This year her D, has been not nearly as good. Check out errors the next time you get a chance.....

Team errors were my concern as well and part of why we finished third.   In 6 crucial losses to WKY, UAB and Charlotte we committed 9 errors.  
 

Rick

[Team Appreciation Party]

Folks, DFD Station #3 on McCormick Street near campus has been referred to as “THE NUT HOUSE” and has had a squirrel on their T shirts and logos since I was in high school 38 years ago,…..long before the University of Texas created the Albino Squirrel Society, and way before some of our uneducated leadership of the past chose to start copying them with their own ASS association.  
 

The squirrel in that sticker on the truck is white simply because the background of the sticker is white and it’s cheaper to have the fewest colors when ordering graphic logos.  
 

If you haven’t seen the truck yet you should go by and see it.  Coolest thing I’ve see since the Model A got restored.

 

Rick

[Team Appreciation Party]

I don’t recall the City of Denton ever making such a single vibrant commitment to support North Texas more than this.  And hats off to Ryan Peck and all involved for nailing the color spot on.   Absolutely bad ass!

Rick

 

 

 

[RIP Rick Herold (ParksandRecRick)]

Very sad to hear of Rick’s passing.  We had some great times over the years.  He was one of the kindest-hearted  dudes you’d ever meet and he loved the Mean Green.  I am going to miss him very much.  Prayers for him and family.

 

Rick

[Wednesday at Noon, Hub Club: Joint Press Conferences and NIT Celebration]

They don’t play golf at night, and does anyone remember the great Hank call after we won the CBI Championship on FRIDAY March 30th, 2018 in front of 6,000 fans??

”Its not just GOOD Friday,…it’s GREAT Friday”.

 

 

 

Rick

 

 

[Wednesday at Noon, Hub Club: Joint Press Conferences and NIT Celebration]

If there’s no players left to celebrate now,…there won’t be any later.  It needs to be done now.  We beat Ok State in Stillwater 13 days ago.  How were there no preliminary plans to do SOMETHING for this team should the inevitable occur two weeks later?   Still, I’m having a hard time believing they all packed up their apartments and skipped town the past 48 hours, especially when two of them were at one of the softball games this weekend.

Since Hodge is having to assemble a staff then I hope he’s been in Houston where every person with a pulse that’s interested in a college basketball job has been the past 3 to 4 days or more.  But we know how these things are done.  He’ll have known most of the guys he’s bringing in and won’t need in person conversation to bring them in.  But if he can be here at 12 noon he can be here at a later time on a day where the most fans can attend.  

Either way It’s all excuses to me and like most of you I can sit here and counter every one of them because we’ve all been around long enough to know how things are done here.  

Regardless the excuse,…if the logistics are soooooooo difficult to work out giving what this accomplishment deserves by getting coaches, players and the most fans under roof at the same time then at least don’t send out a mailer to fans inviting them to “CELEBRATE” a press conference.  

 

Rick

 

[It is official! Ross Hodge is our next head coach!]

Excellent news.  I hope he continues demanding an emphasis on playing SUFFOCATING, LOCK-DOWN, DISCIPLINED, HARD NOSED defense.

Toughest Team Wins!

 

Rick

[UAB (3/30/23)]

 

It’s amazing what an emphasis on playing SUFFOCATING, LOCK-DOWN, DISCIPLINED, HARD NOSED defense can do for your basketball program.

 

Rick

[I'll tell you what's amazing....]

 

It’s amazing what an emphasis on playing SUFFOCATING, LOCK-DOWN, DISCIPLINED, HARD NOSED defense can do for your basketball program.

 

Rick

[Adler is going to lose his mind]

 

It’s amazing what an emphasis on playing SUFFOCATING, LOCK-DOWN, DISCIPLINED, HARD NOSED defense can do for your basketball program.

 

Rick

[TV Viewership]

 

It’s amazing what an emphasis on playing SUFFOCATING, LOCK-DOWN, DISCIPLINED, HARD NOSED defense can do for your basketball program.

 

Rick

[NORTH TEXAS NIT CHAMPIONS]

 

 

It’s amazing what an emphasis on playing SUFFOCATING, LOCK-DOWN, DISCIPLINED, HARD NOSED defense can do for your basketball program.

 

Rick

[Softball Versus McNeese State]

5 hours ago, blurbeard said:

go figure!

No reason to because that’s how college softball goes when pitching your #4 in a mid week game.  And 4 of South Al’s 6 losses were against P5 programs. So they aren’t bottom feeders.  Just better on that day.

 

Rick

[Softball Versus McNeese State]

4 hours ago, SUMG said:

That McNeese team.....just beat #12 Washington......3-2. Washington was 9-1 going in to the game....with their only loss being to #1 Oklahoma (by 1 run).

 

 

I imagine by now UW officials are planning to scrap the program entirely!……./sarcasm

 

Rick